php-markdown-extra-extended - my humble attempt at extending php-markdown

Waylan Limberg waylan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 09:02:29 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Egil Hansen <egil at assimilated.dk> wrote:

> Dear all,

>

> I have used Markdown via Drupal a few months now, with a customer site

> and my currently my own blog and based on that practical experience I

> wanted to add some extra functionality to PHP Markdown Extra, so out

> of this grow my (extended) weekend project

> https://github.com/egil/php-markdown-extra-extended

>

> The big missing item right now that I would like to implement is the

> ability to add classes to block and span elements. My basic idea is to

> use a syntax like this: {some class}


If you're looking for prior art, I'd suggest Maruku's attribute lists
[1]. I'm aware of at least two other markdown implementations which
have adopted this.

[1]: http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html#attribute_lists


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